This amp is SO underrated for clean tones.

I know its not exactly a hot take, but I love marshally tones, and I always find myself coming back to it even for low tuned stuff. In a world where it feels like most modern metal is using evh/mesa/engl/etc, a low tuned marshall sound is almost a rarity.

I think is fair to say that Jon can make any amp sound great.

Fantastic demo!! You really put effort into including every kind of player in here… thanks for that

Nothing beats a hot Marshall head for killer metal tones. I especially loved the "Metal Active" tones with the LTD Phoenix and the 7 string baritone mix. Great demo as always Jon. Keep up the fantastic work!

Such an under rated great amp series. I love that your making vids of this type of gear so it arms youngsters with info for options for starter rigs. My buddy had a 112 DSL that I would play Weezer Blue album covers on.

Another great vid bud !! You always dial in stellar tones man and ur playing is killer 🤟🤟

Beautiful choice of guitars for the demo Love it

Awesome! I envy those tones. Ironically, being a guitar player, my weakness is creating good tones. Great as always man!

Sounds incredible amazing demo showing so many style of tones legendary amp

I just scored one of these from Sam Ash for 650 and it came in today. Easily one of the best amps you can purchase below 1000 dollars. Don't hesitate on them

Nice Demo! I picked up this amp back around March! I’m usually playing My Marshall now or My EVH Stealth 50W

love it! so creative playing!!! damn!!!

The best part about your channel is you always get great results. Great riffs and tones my friend! Also helps that because you do such a stellar job, your followers get a good dose of confirmation bias! 😊 Cheers dude!

Excellent sound! Very versatile playing and also amp!

With that Ibby M80M...holy cannoli. Fantastical sounds all around Mr. John!

Fantastic tones ! Very versatile amp .

This amp is extremely underrated for metal, sludge, and doom. It has a shit ton of low end punch just like the dual rec. Tri-Crow studios did a back to back with it and it's really hard to tell the difference IMO. The only reason I sold mine was because I got a JVM instead but there are things the DSL can do, IMO, the JVM can't or I've not figure out how to dial it in yet.

w Wow, I love it, the grain is really rich and pleasing, the chugs are great, cool smooth low end, great note definition, what else. 😁

your chord shapes are very cool...i need to start reading up on these shapes...and how to progress through them musically

And.... He slams it out of the Park folks !🙄😏👍🥳

just love this amp, have two of it 💪💪

I own one of these amps,and yes I'm impressed.

I've had mine since the 2nd month they were available. My favorite amp by far. I put a choke in mine about a year ago and I added it with a switch to select choke or stock resistor but I normally have the choke selected. It feels fuller with the choke as youd expect. But if I'm really pushing the power section and trying to get some good sag I use the switch to go back to the resistor. Its an incredibly versatile amp that i cant recommend enough. There are some nitpicks i have about pcb design choices that could effect its life but they are easily fixed to avoid any issues diwn the road. And tone wise i have zero complaints. I also added the bright cap they removed on this version on a switch for the ultra channel. So now it can be stock which is warmer than the 100H or it can be like the 100H which is a hairier brighter more classic marshall sounding lead tone or set to be right in-between the two. It takes pedals great and dispite what ill informed people say it sounds fantastic at low volumes. Sometimes at night when my wife is already in bed if i dont want to swap over my cabs and pedals to the Fender Champ clone i built or to one of my solid state amps i just use the Marshall on low volume and its so quiet she cant hear in our room but it still sounds good and reacts just aa it would at a higher volume. Now its always going to sound best once you turn it up enough to get all that natural tube compression etc. but turned down low its absolutely good enough for practice or low volume recording.

My dream amp..

Love it. Classic Channel green and red and OD 1 on Ultra gain.

Greats riffs sounds incredible

Nothing sounds as good as a Gibson played thru a Marshall. That Les Paul played thru the HR 100 sounds heavenly, can't even imagine a combination that would sound better.🙂

I never got the "gibson" thing, until i plugged it into a Marshall........INSTANT AC/DC sound, just crazy tone!!

Just got approved for a sweetwater card and this will be in my living room soon.

The DSL amps sound great imo and are pretty slept on. Running it into a decent impulse response through a two notes or something will get you really solid raw results straight out of the gate. The classic gain channel takes pedals really nicely too and still retains a lot of the character of the amp. I have the 20w version and it's absolutely ideal for home recording straight into a capture device.

Usually to me (inexpensive) Marshalls always seemed to me to be a bit fizzy on the top end, when driven....you did a good job not making it too fizzy here!

I had to come back to hear what my amp sounds like. Mine is now in the shop being fixed. Some channel switching issue going from green channel OD1 back to clean Green Channel is remains in distortion mode? A little over Two weeks now and I am going crazy not having it here. I know why I miss it now. It just rocks your balls off. Great playing man!

*Very Tasty* ! Love my two Britt DSL's

7:35 that glassy marshall presence is magical given that dude was hitting the 6th string hard as fuck at the same time

Awesome demo! Hey what differences in tone are there when you are using master 1 as opposed to master 2?

If anyone here was looking for a new one, they are back in stock as of yesterday at Sweetwater! Go now, before they are all gone again. It took over ten months for this restock from Marshall this time alone! 🤟

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Awesome sounds! From pristine cleans, to punchy crunch & rock saturation, not to mention it seems to work pretty damn well with baritones and 7-8 string guitars! From top to bottom it does everything in a very convincing way! I've got its little brother, the DSL20HR since last year and I love it! Great tone, very versatile and the EL34s along with the Resonance control give more depth and thump to the distortion. I'm pretty surprised by the clean sounds in this demo, really sparkly and pleasant...I'll have to check 'em out a bit more on mine! As always great content!

John your the best dude

I have this amp...it sounds great..my fingers can pull some tone..his??? 😮 All the tone...😂 Well done sir...

Dude if u had a cd I'd buy it in a second man

That was great. I don't know why these amp got such a bad rep. Also the riffs are always very good. I'd be curious to hear your take on a JCM 900 SL-X (such a weird and interesting albeit not very versatile amp).

I own a DSL50 with some mercury magnet upgrades that has been on marktplaats actually a couple of times, but i keep taking it off because it sound so killer and I want to keep it, although I never use it. (It's in storage now and both with my band and at home I use moddeling)

Underrated amp for metal imo. It and the Silver Jubilee are great and not a lot of people in metal use them so there's an open opportunity to sound kind of unique

I don’t know if you have done it but I’d love to see a detailed review between the dsl20 and the 100. The 100 has too much more power for me but some better toner versatility from what I can tell.

how did you make the green ultra gain channel sound tight and bright? I have a DSL40CR (same preamp but with less watt) but it always sounds dark even when I have the Presence and Treble on full.

There was some weird high frequencies going on with the pushed cleans.

Can you do the orange cr120 next? I’m curious to how you can make that amp sound!

hey john... is it jon or John? also do you even know how to do a bad video or bad song? its just like everything you do freaking rocks!

Man, your demos are consistently the best on KZfaq. I have this head and have to sell it. Girlfriend and I don’t have the space to keep it with the 4x12 cab. I HATE that it has to go 😢

Pay the rumors no attention, this amp head is KILLER DILLER FKN MILLER!

There is a used one close to me for $725. Should probably go pick it up but I don't think I could make it sound as great as you!!!

Did you have to pull the bass and the resonance back all the way to not clip the preamp? I found that was the issue with mine.

The clean on the 100 has got to be better than the clean on this dsl 20 I've got

I just bought a used one and anytime I reach a decent gain point for metal, it gets a lot of muffle and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong lol. Any ideas?

I have this amp and it's better than my jcm 800.

I got one of these from sweetwater last Monday. I was pretty excited as i haven't had a marshall type amp in a while. Long story short, i hate it. I'm running it through my evh 2x12 with heritage g12h30s. I can't dial in a percussive and mean 80s type metal tone no matter what i do. Boosing with a sd1 and maxon od808 hasn't helped either. Looks like it's going back soon for a refund

Is there much difference between the DSL100HR and H?

Should've played your 9 string as well.

Had a friend with one, great head but the cab was awful

3:10 great riff, if only there were tabs(

I'm going to go ahead here and say 1199 is not affordable.

Too bad Marshall hasn’t produced any of these amps in over a year. Guess they’re too busy building refrigerators and headphones.

Not my cup of tea, too fuzzy.